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8.2 Text Reconstruction and Composition
Order the sentences below in the order in which you believe they appeared in the original.
Order the sentences below in the order in which you believe they appeared in the original.
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No one exemplified the New Woman of the late 19th century more than Italy's Maria Montessori, best known in the United States for her pioneering efforts to reform early childhood education.
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Born into the newly unified Kingdom of Italy in 1870, Montessori was the only child of an unusually well educated mother and a traditionalist father.
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The family moved to Rome when Maria was five, and there the future educator attended the city's inadequate public schools.
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Classrooms seldom had enough books to go around, and the era's educational philosophy, such as it was, left little room for rigor and creativity.
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Worse, from Montessori’s point of view, schools offered far more opportunities for boys than girls.